My First Merlin

We spotted Merlin accidentally—not recently, but during one of our biking trips. He was sitting up high on the tree, just waiting for a picture to be taken. It took me a while to figure out what it was, but then, with the help of other birders from the bird forum, I learned this was a Merlin from the falcon family. If you look up close, one can see he is waving with his right foot.

I am currently working on my birding list, and I have about eighty birds identified. This list includes what I saw in the wild, at the zoo, or in captivity. I still have to add a few birds that I saw in Singapore by visiting the Jurong Bird Park. Actually, it will probably be another fifty or seventy birds. I have an older post that shows some birds from the bird park. You will be scared of this prehistoric lookalike, the Shoebill.

I just realized it's been four days since my last post. So what happened? My Internet was down. We currently have a digital phone; the price was great, but can you trust the new technology yet? Apparently not. We are pretty good at buying new tech toys later in the cycle, but this time we got sucked in too early. So far, so good after the service, but will it last? And if you really want to know, our digital phone was causing our Internet to go down because of a too-strong signal. So when the Internet goes down, our phone goes down. How sweet. Oh well, I am back and ready to blog again before things get disconnected.

~ Anna